Full Schedule

4-page Papers

Video Competition Nominees

7:30 AM - 5:00 PM CT

Registration Desk Hours

7:30 AM - 7:00 PM CT

Poster Help Desk/Upload Hours

8:00 AM - 5:30 PM CT

Oral/Poster Pitch Presentation Upload Hours

Location: Hall of Fame

8:30 AM - 9:15 AM CT

Plenary 1: Genomic Selection - The Next 25 Years - Sponsored by SEMEX

Location: Exhibit Hall B

Chair: – Department of Animal Science, University of California, Davis

Presenting Author: – Queensland Alliance Agriculture And Food Innovation

Author: – Queensland Alliance Agriculture And Food Innovation

Author: – Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)

Author: – University of Melbourne

Invited Plenary Talk

9:15 AM - 10:00 AM CT

Duel 1: What’s the Role of Livestock in Food Production Systems of the Future?

Location: Exhibit Hall B

Chair: – Department of Animal Science, University of California, Davis

Presenting Author: – LAVES Institut für Bienenkunde Celle

Presenting Author: – Texas A&M University

Speaker Duel

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM CT

Efficiency and Sustainability 1: Making Every Bite Count: Exploring the Genetic Complexity of Feed Efficiency

Location: Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, Rooms K-R

Chair: – University of Tennessee

Chair: – AbacusBio

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM CT

33 - Genetics of resilience and feed efficiency in livestock: their genetic relationship and potential trade-offs

Location: Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, Rooms K-R

Presenting Author: – Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

Genetics of feed intake and efficiency

11:01 AM - 11:02 AM CT

34 - Genetic parameter estimates of indigestible feed markers in Holsteins and correlations with production

Location: Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, Rooms K-R

Presenting Author: – Pennsylvania State University

Author: – Pennsylvania State University

Author: – Department of Animal Science, Pennsylvania State University

Genetics of feed intake and efficiency

11:02 AM - 11:03 AM CT

35 - Feed Intake Phenotypes of Growing Dairy Heifers that are the Progeny of Bulls with High or Low Breeding Values.

Location: Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, Rooms K-R

Presenting Author: – Livestock Improvement Corporation

Author: – CRV

Author: – LIC

Author: – Livestock Improvement Corporation

Genetics of feed intake and efficiency

11:03 AM - 11:04 AM CT

36 - Estimating heritability of deep phenotypes for feed efficiency in dairy cows

Location: Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, Rooms K-R

Author: – Wageningen University and Research, Animal Breeding and Genomics, Animal Production Systems

Author: – Wageningen University and Research, Animal Production Systems

Presenting Author: – Wageningen University and Research, Animal Breeding and Genomics

Author: – Wageningen University & Research, Animal Breeding and Genomics

Genetics of feed intake and efficiency

11:04 AM - 11:05 AM CT

37 - Potential for Genetic Selection of Feed Efficiency Traits in Holstein Dairy Calves

Location: Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, Rooms K-R

Presenting Author: – The Roslin Institute, The University of Edinburgh

Author: – Centre for Genetic Improvement of Livestock, Department of Animal Biosciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

Author: – University of Guelph

Author: – Centre for Genetic Improvement of Livestock, University of Guelph

Author: – University of Guelph

Author: – Lactanet Canada; Centre for Genetic Improvement of Livestock, University of Guelph

Author: – Centre for Genetic Improvement of Livestock, Department of Animal Biosciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

Genetics of feed intake and efficiency

11:05 AM - 11:06 AM CT

38 - Feed efficiency in Fleckvieh dairy cows: First insights into genetic relationships

Location: Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, Rooms K-R

Presenting Author: – BOKU University

Author: – BOKU University, Vienna, Austria

Author: – Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture

Author: – Agricultural Center Baden-Wuerttemberg

Author: – Federal Agricultural Research and Education Center Raumberg-Gumpenstein

Author: – ZuchtData EDV-Dienstleistungen GmbH

Author: – ZuchtData EDV-Dienstleistungen GmbH, Vienna, Austria

Author: – BOKU University

Genetics of feed intake and efficiency

11:06 AM - 11:07 AM CT

39 - Genetic correlations between residual feed intake and growth in Hereford beef cattle

Location: Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, Rooms K-R

Presenting Author: – National Institute of Agricultural Research

Author: – INIA-Uruguay

Author: – INIA Uruguay

Genetics of feed intake and efficiency

11:07 AM - 11:08 AM CT

40 - The genetic relationship between liveweight in dairy youngstock and lactating cows in New Zealand dairy cattle.

Location: Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, Rooms K-R

Presenting Author: – LIC

Author: – LIC

Author: – Livestock Improvement Corporation

Genetics of feed intake and efficiency

11:08 AM - 11:09 AM CT

41 - The association between genetic merit for live-weight and energy intake and efficiency in grazing dairy cows

Location: Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, Rooms K-R

Author: – Teagasc

Presenting Author: – Teagasc

Genetics of feed intake and efficiency

11:09 AM - 11:10 AM CT

42 - Genomic scans for dry matter intake, consistency of dry matter intake, and residual feed intake in lactating dairy cows using imputed whole-genome sequence data

Location: Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, Rooms K-R

Presenting Author: – University of Wisconsin-Madison

Author: – Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding

Author: – Iowa State University

Author: – University of Florida

Author: – Michigan State University

Author: – University of Wisconsin-Madison

Genetics of feed intake and efficiency

11:10 AM - 11:11 AM CT

43 - Genome-wide association study reveals shared genetic architecture of feed efficiency between calves and first parity Holstein cows

Location: Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, Rooms K-R

Presenting Author: – Centre for Genetic Improvement of Livestock, University of Guelph

Author: – State University of the Northern Parana, Cornélio Procópio, Parana

Author: – The Roslin Institute, The University of Edinburgh

Author: – Centre for Genetic Improvement of Livestock, Department of Animal Biosciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

Author: – Lactanet, University of Guelph

Author: – Centre for Genetic Improvement of Livestock, Department of Animal Biosciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

Genetics of feed intake and efficiency

11:15 AM - 11:30 AM CT

44 - Genetic parameters of feed intake, eating behaviour, efficiency and body weight recorded using 3D cameras in three dairy cattle breeds

Location: Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, Rooms K-R

Presenting Author: – VikingGenetics and QGG, Aarhus University

Author: – VikingGenetics

Author: – QGG, Aarhus University

Genetics of feed intake and efficiency

11:30 AM - 11:45 AM CT

45 - Derivation of energy allocation coefficients to growth and exploration of its genetic background in American Angus cattle

Location: Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, Rooms K-R

Presenting Author: – Purdue University

Author: – UMR PEGASE, INRAE, Institut Agro Rennes

Author: – Purdue University

Author: – Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA

Author: – Angus Genetics Inc., American Angus Association, Saint Joseph, MO, USA

Author: – University of São Paulo, Pirassununga, Brazil

Author: – Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

Genetic architecture of quantitative traits

11:45 AM - 12:00 PM CT

46 - Is eating less better? Relationship of feed efficiency with production traits in New Zealand sheep

Location: Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, Rooms K-R

Presenting Author: – Bioeconomy Science Institute

Author: – Bioeconomy Science Institute, Invermay Agricultural Centre

Author: – AgResearch

Author: – Bioeconomy Science Institute

Genetics of feed intake and efficiency

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM CT

Estimation and Prediction 1: Genomic Prediction 1

Location: Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, Exhibit Hall B

Chair: – Department of Animal and Dairy Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA

Chair: – The Roslin Institute, The University of Edinburgh

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM CT

1 - Methods for joint genetic prediction of multiple ordinal categorical and continuous traits

Location: Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, Exhibit Hall B

Presenting Author: – University of Georgia, Animal and Dairy Science Department

Author: – Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding; University of Georgia

Author: – Animal and Dairy Science, University of Georgia

Author: – Department of Animal and Dairy Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA

Quantitative genetics software and computing

11:00 AM - 11:15 AM CT

2 - Novel strategies to improve the computational efficiency of large-scale genomic evaluations

Location: Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, Exhibit Hall B

Presenting Author: – Wageningen University & Research

Author: – Wageningen University & Research

Author: – Wageningen UR - Animal Breeding and Genomics

Author: – Wageningen University & Research

Author: – Topigs Norsvin

Author: – Topigs Norsvin Research Center

Author: – Wageningen University & Research

Genomic prediction methods

11:15 AM - 11:30 AM CT

3 - Pruning outdated phenotypic and genomic data to optimize Single-Step genomic evaluation

Location: Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, Exhibit Hall B

Author: – Irish Cattle Breeding Federation

Presenting Author: – Irish Cattle Breeding Federation

Author: – Aviagen

Genomic prediction methods

11:30 AM - 11:45 AM CT

4 - Replacing Unknown Parent Groups with Metafounders in traditional pedigree-based U.S. Dairy Genetic Evaluations

Location: Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, Exhibit Hall B

Presenting Author: – Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding

Author: – CDCB - Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding

Author: – Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding; University of Georgia